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The Sporting Tyne
Ian Whitehead
£5.50
The History of professional rowing on the Tyne. Rowing was to Tyneside in Victorian times what football is to day. Great crowds would gather to support their heroes - men like Harry Clasper, Robert Chambers and James Renforth. This book tells their story as well as the development of such rowing innovations as the sliding seat.
Cinemas of Gateshead
£7.50
This fascinating book traces the history of Cinemas in Gateshead from ’flea pits’ to ’dream palaces’. Read about the early beginnings in 1896 through the inter-war glory years, when picture houses were by far the most popular form of entertainment, with no significant rivals apart from radio and dance halls, through the declining years of the sixties and seventies, back to the resurgence of the new multi-cinemas. This is a must for anyone who loves cinema or remembers the old cinemas of the area.
Fighting Trade 1600-1800
Now half price at £12.50 each! (2 volumes)
The development of the Great Northern Coalfield
A study of railways, of the first systems which ever existed, the wooden waggonways of Tyneside which fathered all rail networks of today. Most attention is given to the classical era of the Tyne coal trade, closing around 1770, in the three historical parishes on the south shore of the river which were the heart of the original Newcastle coalfield, Gateshead, Whickham and Ryton.
Waggonways were part of the coal industry, and neither would have been what it was without the other, or without the local families who controlled the trade.
Made on Tyneside
£1.25
The history of the manufacture of aircraft, cars and motorbikes on Tyneside, written by the son of an engineer who worked at the Angus Sanderson factory during the Great War. The booklet includes cars created in Birtley, planes produced in Gosforth and motorbikes manufactured in Newcastle. The companies include Angus Sanderson, Armstrong Whitworth, Vickers and N.U.T. Aircraft include the BE2A,FK3, FK8, and FK10, a range covering biplanes, triplanes and quadruplanes.
In 1920, on the other side of the world, the first regular airmail service run by the Australian company, the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service Limited, (now QANTAS) was undertaken with an FK8.
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